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Loving being human, despite a fracturing world
Last week in London I began my talk about Breaking Together by asking the people gathered to raise their hand if they felt proud of being human. Only a couple of people did. I then asked for a show of hands on the question on whether humans are inherently destructive to nature. A small majority… Read more
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Do environmentalists secretly hate people?
“When people like you fly over Africa you want to see wild animals. When I fly over Africa, I don’t want to see dead Africans.” I still remember this statement from one of my former bosses at the UN, about 20 years ago. I was shocked at his idea that caring about the environment meant… Read more
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Be my twitter?
As I have been suspended from Twitter, I’d like to ask your help so that a Q&A on my book can be heard about. I was heartened that over 80 people joined me to discuss “Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse.” The event was hosted by Katie Carr of the Deep Adaptation Forum. The… Read more
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Climate truth is a challenge to power – even that of senior experts
After another week of frightening temperature anomalies around the world, I gave a talk to supporters of the MEER project, which is trialling various means of locally-led climate adaptation that involve reflecting the sun’s rays. The video and transcript follow below. References for all the factual statements made in my presentation can be found within… Read more
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Breaking Together for free – and my launch speech
The ebook of Breaking Together is now available for free and my speech to launch the book is online. I will be taking questions from readers during a webinar at 5pm UK time today. Join us?… Continue reading Breaking Together for free – and my launch speech → Read more
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From doom-scrolling the latest climate news to doom-sensemaking
As temperature records are broken around the world, some of the most senior ranking climate experts are quoted in mainstream media as expressing their grave concern. Because what is happening is worse than those climate experts predicted some years ago. They don’t say that though – misleading journalists to think that current temperature anomalies are… Read more
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